Wild Food Foraging- Yellow Birch Sap- The Taste of Spring!
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- In this episode I harvest some delicious Yellow Birch Sap. The sap is being hailed as a "super drink" by the health food industry right now. Early Settlers and Natives used to drink it in the spring to help boost their immune systems for the coming year. However it can be tricky to get, because it can only be harvested 3 weeks out of the year. See how I did it!
I love it when the beauty industry 'discovers' something that bushcrafters have known about for a couple thousand years.
...and yet, you only discovered it because of this video
They discovered it about as much as europreans discovered America
@@enzoqueijao Europeans didn’t discover America. The Jews from the Bible found a new land. The Europeans renamed that new land and called it ‘america’
@@arberfilms2302 I doubt the jews were the ones to discover it, but yes, that's what I said
@@enzoqueijao Do not attempt to make contact with the Mormon.
I have learned years of experienced information in 1 night watching your videos. THANK YOU!
Tapping a cold one with the boys
Mfw
Sounds kinky
@@phucyu8428 "tapping a cold one"
*_sounds like necrophilia to me_*
Now we are the mosquitos
Joel Järnefelt exactly! We think mosquitoes are pests but in reality we are
Joel Järnefelt lookookookkookmkoonoI'mno
That's exactly what I was thinking
@@mr.classified2380 ok this is a lie. theyre everywhere in most forests too
Reminds me of a manga that i've read by junji ito
*Spoiler*
A group of people addicted to eating the sap of a certain tree. After eating the sap, a big mysterious "hand" came out of nowhere and crushed the people who ate it. Turns out the "hand" was from the tree. The manga makes an impression where the humans are mosquitos and the tree is the "human"
you make me wanna go outside and start cutting into trees lol
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Birch trees have less sugar in the sap vs maple.....very good to consume. I use the same spiels for this tree as I would for my maple trees. And birch trees have a heavier sap flow vs maple trees...about 1% sugar in the sap vs 2-5% in the maple trees...the sugar varries from tree variety and the season weather there is a drought or not in the fall previous to the spring harvest.
The soft stuff in the center of the branch is called pith.
I've wanted to eat something made from yellow birch since I was a kid - always loved the smell but never knew it was edible. I'm definitely going to try this next spring. Thanks for the info!
did you try it yet
I have a lot of yellow birch on my property. Thank you for teaching me this technique.
2:20 you can hear a Broadwing hawk call. Nice
This guys videos are great really informative
Oh, that sweet sappy goodness.
The taste of spring. Man I hope so. LOL
You make excellent quality videos!
New subscriber here. I live in the northeast of the us and I plan to try tapping my own birch sap/water soon! Also making white pine needle tea. My mother didn't nickname me nature girl for no reason though I'm 27 now. ☺️🌲
Very enjoyable and informative. For Fahrenheit to Celsius, 1 C° = 9/5F° or 1.8F°. It was taught to me as 9/5 so it’s easy to see ea. 9F°=5C° exactly as follows: 0C=32F, 5C=41F, 10C=50F, 15C=59F, 20C=68F, 25C=77F, 30C=86F, 35C=95F, 40C=104F. These as the whole number equivalents. The sub-freezing equivalents then follow as: -5C=23F, -10C=14F, -15C=5F, -17.78C=0F, -20C=-4F, -25C=-13F, -30C=-22F, -35C=-31F, -40C=-40F. Only at -40 are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal. Celsius Times 1.8 plus 32 = Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit minus 32 divided by 1.8 = Celsius.
Great vid! Looked like a nice time all around!....Ben
great video am going to try thanks shaz
Good on you Man. Excellent video from you, thank you. From, a fellow woodsman in The States.
Thank u for showing us the edibles.
Cool video....thanks for sharing !
Thumbs up and sharing it.
ENJOY....THE SIMPLE LIFE
now that's all natural!!! great video!!
Very good video,s Thanks!
In Alaska, I visited a company that made birch syrup (consistency like maple syrup, but with a very different birch flavor) and supposedly it is the largest birch syrup producer in the United States.
Very interesting. Thank you!
you are amazing and awesome!!
Excellent! Hope to do this some day!
In Soviet Russia, trees drink YOU.
TheSweetestJerk no russia jokes
@@kuckoo.8753 he was Russian to make the first joke, lol.
Hahaaaa, nice, I love that.
It's a symbiosis, we drink each other)
Thanks for this! Excited you came out with this video before Alaska starts to thaw :0D Just in time to give it a go up here!
+AK Off-Grid Awesome! You'll have to let me know how it goes.
THANKS the Great info. .
you know in east Europe birch juice is something very loved and people Especially children drink it for hundreds of years
Solveg Rasmus those must be some long living children!
loltrololol......xD
very resourceful young man
Drinking the blood of trees... brutal. :P
Caassiopeia , they are created for thay purpose..."plants is for food and medicine". Let plants be your food and your food be your medicine...
Don't worry, they are gonna drink your blood and eat your flesh and bone when you're done with it, it's life cycle...
Caassiopeia wtf
Caassiopeia You sound like such a twit !
Insane comment, stupid actually
I love white Birch trees! I enjoy stepping on shed bark
Interesting To Note, Thxs., Merci.
Spring Turkey season in Missouri is a full camo deal with calls, shotgun or bow, yep I know a couple guys been hit with shot LOL only young kids and city folk make the mistake of sound shots and sometimes carry a buzzard out LOL. I just go where turkey are and start sneaking in a ever expanding circle , i sometimes pass hunters who never know I'm there and eventually 1-3 hours I sneak right into a bunch of turkey. I move very slowly when the wind blows leaves and if I don't create a sound pattern and if I can't hear me -nothing else is putting it together either, don't got to worry about sneaking up on a birch tree so I'm going to start collecting sap tomorrow.
I live in ohio,got to try this !!! Thank you !!!!
Aww your the most adorable man your wife is a lucky gal
Good stuff!
Thanks - Martin
+NorwegianWoods Thanks again Martin!
its the birch that gets the paper cuts today!
You can carve a hook on the tap stick and hang a jar of it.
Hey,
Found your chan and its amazing.
I love going out in the forest to do the same exact thing.
I also tap Paper Birch trees every year, I harvest about 50 gallons from rotating trees every other year, and then freeze the sap.
I have not made any syrup yet. but my end goal is to make syrup then distil it :)
thanks for sharing , keep it up ..
Canada! 🇨🇦 hello from Arkansas
canadia
Just subscribed. Awesome videos
+Anthony Vettese Thanks for the sub!
Great Video Subscribed
With the type of plastic water bottles he was using... why not just poke a small hole in the bottle towards the top and affix over the stick; save the trouble of having to makes sure everything is lined up properly.
His way is fine.
This is (or at least was) really popular in Russia
Just remember never to tap the same Birch tree (or any tree) twice in a row, at the very least give it a year to recover or you could kill it.
Hi - in Poland we tap white birch juice in spring, very healthy and tastes like plain water. But it's full of minerals and vitamins, after all that's the fluid that will produce the new leaves. Give it a try.
Great vid!👍👍👍
I have the same axe. It's awesome.
Good to know
Wish we had trees like this here in Florida.
Palm sap/honey 🌴 LOL!
In Canada, the First Nations people would harvest birch syrup. The early Ukrainian settlers would also harvest the birch syrup.
@irishbreakfast Lmao. Nice rant there, ignoramus. I'm sure the indigenous people would LOVE to be called "the weaker victim folk". Also, "First Nations" refers *specifically* to the Canadian indigenous peoples that aren't Inuit (indigenous people of the Arctic area) or Métis (descendants of the children of early First Nation and white people). See, information is not so scary! Now you can say "Today, I learned something new about my continent from a person who has never set a foot on it, and I'm not even ashamed!" More power to you, love.
I can't tell a birch from a poplar from a maple just looking at the park
birch beer is very good.
We love a vlogger
I remember we use to eat sap
Wow I want to try this
first lol outsider I love you videos
+adrian vives lol Thanks!
Wow I'm awstruk you answered thanks
do you think the hight of the tap will have any impact?
no. you want a tree that is at least 8 inches in diameter. I guess a tree with a bigger canopy will give more sap
The lower the better.
One day I had to eat my hand
Dafuq... R u stupid
was there a difference between the two?
New fan ... love the videos..can you tap any trees ..fr Nova Scotia 🇨🇦
I did tap for maple sap and made syrup but have no birch trees to tap....walnut trees can be tapped too.
Chris Black I didn't tap trees I tap pussys
News & Views Today it's the Internet. pretty sure he can type whatever he wants.
The Great Moblicrucious, So can News & Views Today, and I'm with him on this. Not funny, clever or beneficial to anyone. Just raunchy. But hey, if that's the sort of thing you like, rock on.
+ Great Moblicrucious . - Yup you are correct - he sure can & with that - so can I.
A little free speech left for a little longer yet. But seriously what I typed is exactly what he is saying/implying. Why do people think anyone is interested in such things in the first place is my question? Utterly childish. That's all I am pointing out - of course I know he is free to say what ever he wants, but we did come here to learn about outdoor harvesting techniques for health & survival, I guess nothing is sacred any more...nothing. I will remove my comment if you think I should. It just gets really 'old' the idiocy such as Your Father exhibits.
News & Views Today, Why would you remove your comment? Please don't.
is it wise to be in the woods during hunting seasons?
It all depends really. The woods that I was in there are privately owned and only a small handful of people have access to it. If any of these people want to hunt there, they give everyone else a heads-up first. So I knew I was the only person in that section of bush when I was filming that day. Otherwise I wouldn't have risked it.
OutsideFun1 how do you know when too tap them it's November I have a lot here in my woods in upstate ny. please lmk I would love to do this!
Beautiful Linda normally in early spring before the leaves come in. as late spring make it taste bitter
The sap runs up & down each time there is a warm day in early spring but a chill dipping below freezing at night & back up to a warm day.....this is when the sap flows, each time it passes the Tap you get some. : )
anthony miller Only if you aren't in a turkey disguise.
I know sugar maple since we have aplenty in Quebec. I will have to try the other kinds of sap. I tried the Norwegian maple sap and nope, it taste like vegetables with a sweetness in it. Birch I suspect to taste better. Yellow birch I dunno, I have worked with that wood a lot and... sometimes it smells like piss.
PatCat that probably means they added some “ingredients”. I don’t think it’s supposed to taste like vegetables.
Smells like piss? Most likely them damn squirrels.
The wood yard is full of decomposing wood scrapes, bark, and sawdust.
it takes two days to fill up one bottle the other one is water from the tree
You should put the tap steepernso it goes with the wood facing down so none of the moisture goes down the tree and not in the bottle.
I always thought sap would be much thicker
I had no idea you could tap birch trees. We have more than enough here on my reserve.
Is the yellow birch the best birch to tap or do they all have good flavor and health benefits ? Also, where are you located ? I'd like to find the geography of where yellow birch grow. And, do you also harvest chaga mushroom off these yellow birch ?
Now all i have to do is plant a yellow birch and wait 40 years.
Life's a birch.
Me: Hi
UA-cam Captions: SAP
we used to do this as kids
Hello I'm just curious what white birch trees can be used for
I think you can make Root Beer from the roots, but don't know how.
Lol not Root Beer, Birch Beer. It was gathered from the roots but they ended up almost making the tree extinct.
The bark makes decent paper. Otherwise, I don't know.
Bondar Skates I heard they make oxygen to breathe
The Native Americans also used the bark for many things. one of them being arrow quivers.
Very Good Video ! I have never heard of tapping the yellow birch , but only heard of tapping the white birch , Thanks ! An old hermit I use to know always made birch beer , from the buds, and real honey . I'm Not much of a beer drinker , but I was always up for one of his , all natural home brews . Looks like you need some snow , I'm willing to share : ) , have over 3 feet here .
+cyril brun lol Nah, you can keep your snow.
He never showed how to plug the hole after your done taking the sap. This can cause infection and cause the tree to perhaps die. Always seal the hole with wood after your finished and be sure no debris is in the hole before you seal it.
The tree heals naturally on its own. Plugging the hole is a fairly new idea that has been propagated through UA-cam. But talk to any maple syrup producer and they'll tell you not to plug the holes. And maple syrup producers care very much about their trees, seeing as how they are used to make a living. Sometimes for generations.
I had no idea thanks for the info. I will have to look into that.
Dying from infection is for squishy animals that rot easily and have quick-flowing bloodstreams.
7/10 video
For how long can you store it before it goes bad?
@@flusteredferretiv3382 how do you store birch sap. like water, cool dark place? Anybody ever cook it down.
What is the most effective way to store Yellow Birch sap? How long will it last?
Thanks for awesome content!
About four days in the fridge. For longer storage you can freeze or can it, or else add some raisins and ferment it. In Eastern Europe they make lemonade with the fermented sap.
Hunger games getting water/liquids from trees
You need to write a book!
this video seems to be fairly "poplar"
In the bush? Those are woods son. Let the Aussies have their bush.
the term is universal lmao
Bush, as in Bushcraft Heroes !
In Canada (at least in northern Ontario) we’ve always used the term “bush”.
I've hiked through thousands of forests in Ontario. If you're closer to small towns and isolated houses, then you're in the sticks. However in places like Northern Ontario where there are way fewer people and hiking is more serious, you're in the bush.
jesus christ how insecure do need to be to gatekeep "the bush"
20$ a liter?! Hell, I could sell it for half that and still mke a ton of cash.
@irishbreakfast a liter is the unit of measurement for volume the rest of the world uses
Its about 1/3 to 1/4 of a gallon
Well somewhere inbetween
almost cabin building time!!!!!
+Matt Cl Woo hoo!
OutsideFun1 u seem almost as excited as me! i cant wait!!!!!
Where in the US is the foraging taking place? I'm in the Northeast and habitat looks similar. Very well produced and incredibly informative. Thanks.
Hi, could you the scientific names for your yellow and white birch? I'd like to know if that's a different common name for what we call silver birch (betula pendula) here in Scotland. I'm really interested that the temperature is an indicator, I've only hear that it's the 2 weeks before the buds come out so it's often trial and error. It would be great if I could have a more of an idea exactly when it would be based on air temp.
Thanks for this video :)
Really enjoyed your dideos.. new sub here. We're going to try making some yellow birch syrup as well as some maple syrup.. maybe we'll video it for our channel to share too.
can you tell us through out the entire world what Trees in and out of the USA that we can eat and what to look for what kinds of barks to look for and leaves that may be look the same but be very different as well as barks and how to prepare them ?
can you drink any tree sap? l live in southern cali
All the birch trees around here died during a particularly harsh winter. This might not have been so bad had they not been so bloody scarce in the first place. The few you still see were planted years later, and only for landscaping. Ain't gonna be able to tap the ones in the park for very long. At least just about everything else that grows around here is edible and rarely dangerous...
amezing
Local man consumes tree essence
We have a few pine trees coming down near me. can I extract the sap from the tree/ how? I don't have much time to get the sap out and the trees will not be salvaged so if the best/ fastest way to get the sap is destructive it won't matter. Please let me know if you have any advice.
In finland xylitol is used in chewing gum and toothpaste!
I definitely thought you were making up the word "spile" and boy was i wrong.
Now how do you get it to be clean without anything being or going in the bottle.